Lies you were told....

[shonaspurtle]

Following on from the forbidden thread, what outrageous lies were you told as a child by so-called responsible adults?

My grandma told me:

• Not to swallow chewing gum or it would wrap around my heart and kill me

• Not to swallow apple pips or an apple tree would grow in my stomach

• not to eat sugar out of the sugar bowl or it would give me worms

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'i'll tell you when you're older'

If you suck the ends of your pigtail, you'll get hairballs in your gullet and will choke to death.
If you eat carrots you'll be able to see in the dark.

i was told same ting about my hair

If you eat your baked beans you'll get big boobs like Auntie Jenny
lots of beans, still have tiny norks

ROFL

Giant rhubarb is where elephants lay their eggs. (There was a big clump of giant rhubarb where we went on holiday.)

when the ice-cream man comes around,the siren is to tell you he has ran out of ice-cream!

DD told me one a couple of yrs ago but my other 2 DDs believed her big time- if you open a packet of crisps upside down then it will rain tomorrow! even now the 2 younger siblings still believe it!

loads already mentioned...

the cat ran away to get married

if it has a royal seal of approval on it, the queen has one! i embarrased myself saying to my headteacher about the school lawnmower, oh the queen has one of those.

if you feed the dog marrow bone she will love you.

i wonder if we tell the same porkies to ours?>
i tell mine carrtts will make you see in the dark for isntance.

mine wasn't a budgie it was a goldfish . I didn't speak to my mum for a week after she told me the truth (I usually speak to her daily) - I was 19

That if you ate apple pips/cherry stones a tree would grow out of your stomach up through the top of your head.

That just about everything would kill me -e.g. 'if a swan can break a grown man's arm just think what it could do to your neck'! or 'if you suck/chew your hair it'll kill you' Dp still reckons this is why I am such a scardey cat.

And also not sleeping under covers or you'll suffocate thing.

Even after eating my greens/crusts I still don't have curly hair or a hairy chest

when the icecream van plays the music it means he has run out of icecream

eating crusts will give you curly hair - mine is poker straight

if you pull faces and the wind changes your face will get stuck, contorted

if you stand on a beetle it will rain

loads but i cant think at the moment...

That spam had any nutritional value - blurgh!!!

Loads of these are sounding familiar, another Ice cream van one...when you hear the tinkly music, it's the fish van...how cruel.